The Ohio budget is a signal achievement, a concrete expression of what can happen when the voters elect a reformist governor and provide him or her with majorities in the state house. The example for the United States is obvious.

The public employee unions are of course angry and loud, but the voters wanted exactly this –a state living within its means, embracing job creators and innovation, and evolving to adapt new technologies and the amazing power of private markets to achieve great results.

Governor Kasich will be my guest today, and smart leaders from struggling states will play close attention to what he and his partners in the Ohio Statehouse accomplished yesterday.

Now if he could only do something about the Indians’ bats and the Browns’ linebackers.